Welcome to the Brown Arts Initiative

EXPERIMENT | COLLABORATE | ENGAGE

The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) seeks to cultivate creative expression and foster an interdisciplinary environment where faculty and students learn from one another and from artists and scholars in a wide range of fields across the campus and around the world. Taking full advantage of the University’s Open Curriculum, the BAI builds on Brown’s reputation as a destination for arts exploration, contributing to cultural enterprise through the integration of theory and practice, with an emphasis on innovation and discovery that results from rigorous artmaking and experimentation. Read more…

The arts at Brown are fundamental for stimulating discovery and fueling innovative thinking. The BAI builds on Brown’s distinctive legacy of excellence in the arts, providing students and faculty more opportunities to infuse arts practice, theory and scholarship into the broad range of intellectual activities on campus.